Don't ask, don't tell, don't persueFollow

one is commissioned, one is not.

What about someone who is a medic and a pilot? Imagine flying a plane while stitching someone up AT THE SAME TIME. I bet he'd get mad kudos.

The real difference is the following.

Short version: NCO's execute the plan; Officers create the plan

NCOs are non-commissioned officers who enlisted in the military to do a specific job. As a NCO, you are a leader and a personnel manager who ensures that everyone and everything is to standard. Given their previous experience as a junior enlisted (private, specialist,etc), they have a good understanding of how stuff is supposed to be done. They then take that knowledge to assist the Officer in making any plans.

Officers are leaders that are responsible for the planning. At the end of the day, the officer is ultimately responsible for any action that has occurred under his/her command. Officers wear multiple hats and are not trained to do any one task, but be able to LEAD over any task. This is why officers are often made fun of for not knowing anything, because they are not trained to do one task or group of tasks like enlisted are.

*edit* hence why lolGAXE probably likes pilots, because they are specifically trained to fly aircraft x.

The overall concept is that you can't plan and execute. If you try to do that, you will eventually fail. LolGaxe is just expressing his dislike towards officers as many NCOs do. The bottom line is, we can't take away either groups and be successful.

Edited, Oct 14th 2011 8:36am by Almalieque

Unless you can magically figure out how discrimination solely based upon one's sexual orientation is logically justifiable, I'd rather you didn't.

Again, some do and some don't. To pick a single example, the Episcopal Church allows for the ordination of homosexual clergy. They also believe that sex should be within the confines of marriage. They require homosexual clergy members to be in lifelong, committed monogamous relationships in lieu of a state-approved marriage because state-approved marriage is not an option in most states.

Acceptance of homosexuality doesn't preclude "a lot of other discriminatory rules and regulations that support some list of morals".

We should tax gay marriages.

I'll answer these first



There is no magic. I already explained to you in post 206 how. If you're so delusional where you think it's acceptable to discriminate every other single thing about a person, sex, skin color, nationality, weight, height, religion, etc. in the "land of the free" but there is not one single scenario where it is logical to discriminate against sexuality, then the fault is at you.



..... Reread my point... The key word is "PROBABLY". That doesn't mean 100% all of the time. Unless the organizations you speak of make up the majority of overall such organization, then my claim remains valid. Now you're speaking of a very limited representation.

Sure there may be a situation where you can discriminate based on sexuality. However the ability to join the United States military is not one of them. If you want to restrict access to the military based on sexuality you must justify this.

In your 206 post:

you stated that homosexual couples would be able to follow different rules then hetero couples. This is false, lolgaxe addressed this, as did I in the post shortly after that you've ignored.

your shower point. If you think homosexuals should have separate showers, feel free to try and get this changed, but seeing as they already shower together, repealing DADT does not change anything, and so this is not a legitimate reason.

Finally, people trying to cheat the system is not a valid reason to discriminate based on sexuality.

That was a lot of typing just to say you're afraid to come out of the closet.


One's a woman and the other's a woman?

By fire fight we mean kitchen, right?

That's a pretty flawed bit of logic that gets your whole argument off on an incredibly weak foundation. I've already explained why before but it seems like a gulf too wide for you to cross.

dp

Edited, Oct 14th 2011 11:25pm by rdmcandie